Like many folks, I am “guilty” of future-tripping. Future tripping is when you focus on what you fear could happen rather than being present to NOW. It’s amazing how powerful “now” is and yet most of us aren’t really in it at all. I mean, our bodies may be here in this instant, but our minds are hopscotching between the past and the future, skipping the place where our point of power is. “Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one,” which is what happens when one focuses on the guilt from the past and projects it as a fear for the future.

From what I can see, the nation is presently a curious mix of extremely hopeful people thinking that our president-elect is a businessman, not a politician, and therefore things will change, and extremely fearful people who think he is a bigot and racist and that we are going to regress in consciousness by fifty years.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. And love is ever-present, here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. It is now I am redeemed. This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him.

Healing can only occur when one knows the truth. If we focus on believing in the illness, we perpetuate it. This is what getting mired in condemnation does. This is what getting mired in guilt does. It traps us in the very thing we are attempting to escape from. Violence can’t beget peace. Hatred can’t beget love.

Being fearful isn’t helpful. Fear is an alarm. If it traps us in the past or colors the future with our fears, then ego wins. It has succeeded in eclipsing love.

The point of power is in the present, in this instant. It’s ridiculous to give it away by focusing on fears. Focusing on fears is a great way to ensure that they manifest, to make them a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you focus on expands.

The time for embracing what we want, future-tripping Heaven instead of hell, is NOW in this instant. The time for forgiveness is now. It is the only path that can and will take us to where we want to go. If we are stuck in our fears, if we are busy condemning one another, we can’t get there.